Wake-Robin) of our banks and hedges in England. The 
floral covering is generally of a pale and unobtrusive colour, 
and scentless; but in our species and some others it is in 
part richly tinged with red, and the whole inflorescence yields 
a fragrance, which in the individual before us, I can only 
compare with that of the well known Ox£a fragrans, but far 
more powerful, All are endowed with an acrid and poison- 
ous juice, often of a very virulent nature, as in C. odorum 
and Seguinum, and even the Caxapr1um esculentum (Indian 
Kale ot the West Indies, Tarro of the South Sea Islanders) ; 
nevertheless, by dissipating the juices, this latter plant be- 
comes an agreeable and most important article of food. 
The new species now figured is from the Liverpool Bo- 
tanic Garden, communicated in January, 1834, by my 
valued friend C. S. Parker, Esq. who introduced it to that 
establishment from Demerara. I was at first disposed to 
consider it identical with the C. grandifolium of Jacquin, 
especially that variety of it figured by Dr. Sims in the Bot. 
Magazine, t. 2643 ; “but the powerful and durable fra- 
grance could never have escaped the notice of any one de- 
scribing the recent plant; and, what is of still more conse- 
quence, the petiole is there completely terete or cylindrical, 
whereas in our plant, it presents a perfectly flat upper sur- 
face, with a raised margin on each side. 
Derscr. Stem elongated, rooting. Petiole two feet or 
more long, for its whole length quite flat and margined 
above, semicylindrical beneath. Leaf a foot and a half or 
two feet long, oblongo-cordate, acute, inclining to sagittate, 
deeply two-lobed at the base, the lobes slightly divaricating 
and very obtuse: the veins oblique, distant: the colour 
every-where green, paler beneath. Spatha almost a span 
long, nearly sessile, convolute and somewhat cucullate, 
approaching to cylindrical, acute, contracted below the 
middle, swollen at the base, of a delicate cream-colour, the 
whole swollen base is red. Spadix acute, nearly as long as 
the spatha, broadest at the base, and there thickly covered 
with dense germens, tipped with the obscurely six-lobed and 
sessile stigma ; the rest of the spadix is completely covered 
with peltate anthers, those at the base being abortive. 
Fig. 1. Spadix, nat. size. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil: magnified. 
